Tea or coffee pot.



G. P. SMITH & G. B. GURTISS TEA OE COFFEE POTv APPLICATION FILED DEC.31, 1608.

940,081, Patented Nov. 16, 1909 {022725;555. EMS/flirts.

"- YUNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE- CHARLES F. SMITH AND GEORGE E. CUREO1? NEW- BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, AS-

SIGNORS TO LANDERS, FRARY AND CLARK, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A

CORPORATION.

TEA OR COFFEE POT.

Specification ,of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

Application filed December 31, 1908. Serial No. 470,171.

Io all whom it may concern. I

lie it known that we, CHARLES F. SMITH and Gnoncn E. CURTISS, bothcitizens of the United States, residing. at New Britain, in 5 the countyof Hartford and State of Connectieut,.have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tea or Coffee Pots, of which the following is aspecification.

()nr invention relates to improvements in in tea. or coffee pots andtheobjects of our improvements are efficiency and convenience inconstruction, particularly with reference to withdrawing the tea orcoffee from the liquid without removing the same from the.

gpot.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a central Vertical section ofour tea or coffee pot with certain parts in side elevation.- Fig. 2 isan enlarged viewof the-hollow knob or handle of our tea pot covertogether with the fastening devices and portion of the chain forelevating and supporting the tea ball. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of thesame.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughouttheseveral views.

" A, designates the body of our tea or coffee pot and 5 thecover-therefor. The said body may be of any ordinary construction. The

' cover is provided with ahollow knob or handle Gwhich ispreferablymounted on a headed tube T'and held in place by a nut 8screwed upon the lower end of the said tube.

The tea, coffee or other material for the infusion is confined in a cageor ball consisting of two cup-like parts S) and 1.0, of a perviousstructure detachably connected to gether. In the preferred form theseparts are struck up from sheet metal perforated .for the passage ofliquid and detachably connected by shutting one into the other like apail or box cover so that the material. for infusion may be placed andheld therein. The parts S) and 10 taken together form what is know-n asa tea ball. To the center of the upper part of the tea ball we secure anupwardly extended rod 1.1, in the slotted upper end of which wepivotally secure a latch 12 by'means'of the pin 13. This rod is of adiameter that will readily pass longi- .udinally through the centralholein the knob or handle 6 and of a length that will permit the latchto pass completely through the knob when the rod is passed upwardly fromBelem inside of the cover 5. The.

latch is of a. width less than the inner diameter of the hollow knob andof a length in excess of'the said, diameter. A chain 1 1 is secured byone end to one end of the pivotal latch 12 and by its other end. to a sosuitable enlargement or head v15, that is too large to pass through thehollow knob. The chain and its head should be secured to the latchandrod with the upper part of the tea ball arranged for being on the innerside of the pot cover 5, and the head of the chain on the -outer sidethereof. The teal ball may be loaded by removing the part 10 andreplacing the same after loading. In order to infuse the materialcontained within the tea ball the body of the pot is supplied with hotwater which may be heated as desired and the tea ball let down into thelower partof the pot and into the water as shown by the full lines inFig. 1. It should be noted that in this position the latch stands invertical alinement with the chain' and rod. Vhenerer it is desired toremove the tea ball from the liquid it is only necessary to pullvertically on the chain until 8 the latch passes upwardly wholly out ofthe hollow knob. Then pull the chain a little to one side to throw thelatch 12 out of alinement with the rod 11 and then release the chain.A's thetea ball and rod descend a short distance the lower end of thelatch will strike the top of the knob and as the rod descends the latchwill rest on the top of the knob as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and hold thetea ball in a suspended position above the liquid, as indicated bybroken lines in Fig. 1. If the infusion is not of the desired strength,the chain may be again lifted to pull the latch 12 into vertical alinement with the rod and then let the chain and attached parts fall againwith the tea ball submerged in the liquid, as shown in Fig. 1. In theforegoing construction the cover, knob and. the tube by which it isfastened, when taken together constitute a vertically perforated cover.

\Ve claim as our invention 1. In a tea or coffee pot, a verticallyperforated cover, a tea ball having a rod extending upwardly therefrom,alatch pivoted by its middle to the upper end of the said rod and achain attached by one end to one end of said latch, the other end ofsaid latch being free to project laterally beyond the said rod and serveas a trippin end, the

. tiea position by a vertical pull on the free end of the chain and of alength such that,

it will not pass therethrough when turned to a horizontal position,'andadapted to-be turned into such horizontal position for supporting thetea hall by'the engagement of thetnppi g end of the said latch on thetop of the perforated cover, after the re- .4 lease at the said "freeend of the chaiil.

' v 52, he a tea orcofieepot, a cover having a Vertically perforatedknob centrally ;mount ed therean e tea ball having a rodextendingupwardly therefrom, a latch pivoted, in the 15 up er end of thesaid rod having the lower en 'free anda .chain attached by oneend' tothe upper end of the said latch and adapted to permit and prevent thedown Ward passage of the said 'rod'through the '20 v said knob accordingto the position of the said latch. I a y CHARLES F. SMITH.

v GEORGE E.'OURTISS.'

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